Name: Sweet Potatoes Fried with Pork
Ingredients: 1 quart sweet potatoes; ½ pound fat salt pork; Salt

Why it works: Sweet potato and pork work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 235 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Sweet Potatoes Fried with Pork

Ingredients

1 quart sweet potatoes
½ pound fat salt pork
Salt

Directions

Prepare the potatoes

Wash the sweet potatoes and boil them in salted water until tender.
Peel and slice the potatoes into ½-inch thick slices.

Fry and serve

Slice the fat salt pork and fry it until browned.
Fry the potato slices in the drippings until lightly browned.
Serve the potatoes on the same dish as the pork.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Sweet potato + porktop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together235 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sweet potatoes: Provide the starchy base that becomes tender when boiled and then browns when fried.
Fat salt pork: Supplies fat and drippings that fry the potatoes and add savory flavor.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.